1971年三月，Morrison和他的女友Pamela移居巴黎，打算在那里开始新的生活。这对情侣都有吸毒或酗酒的问题。他们在那里生活直到七月三日，二十七岁的歌手Jim Morrison被发现死在了浴缸里。没有进行尸检。一切看来，似乎Morrison的死正应验了他对尼采的“酒神精神”的信仰。

 

        离开了乐队的支持，Morrison垮了，而失去了灵魂人物的大门乐队也无法维持，尽管他们用同样的乐队名出版了另两张专辑《Other Voices》（1971）和《Full Circle》（1972）。像“I’m Horny And I’m Stoned”这样的标题几乎就是仿制品。不久，乐队的成员们便分道扬镳，Manzarek致力于独奏，而他的伙伴们组成了The Butts乐队。这三人于1978年再次组合，录制了《An American Prayer》（1978）。几乎比The Beatles早了20年，他们选取了一段Morrison在他最后一个生日时录制的诗，花了18个月为专辑录制了Morrison曾打算创作的背景音乐。专辑完成了，尽管Morrison的初衷是用管弦乐配音。但大门乐队的举动却被很多人，包括Paul Rothchild，认为几乎是糟蹋艺术，并且结果的乐器编配缺乏组织。

 

 

The Doors recorded six studio albums with Jim Morrison as their singer from 1967 to 1971, hitting the charts with a series of pop songs that were at least as good as Tommy James and the Shondells. On their albums, they indulged in Morrison’s pretentious obsessions that included extended pieces about Oedipal complexes and the end of the world. Those obsessions have been exaggerated by The Doors myth that continues to this day. This is a collection of Morrison’s poetry, embellished by the surviving Doors several years after the fact. That the live rendition of "Roadhouse Blues" is the only noteworthy selection should tell you what you need to know about the poetry. --Rob O’Connor